[Boerseun]

Your body creates a lot of red blood cells each day. The new ones, of course, are replacing the old worn-out and used-up red blood cells, which are discarded en masse by the liver into the gut as bilirubin. Bilirubin, being mostly old dead red blood cells, is reddish-brown. This gives fecal matter its distinctive colour.

So now you know why poo is the colour it is.

[Monomer]

If all an adult's blood vessels were lined up the length would be over 100,000 km (more than 60,000 miles), and could stretch around the earth two and a half times.

[Jay-qu]

nice...

An ice age, which you may associate with mass extinctions of species of earth, could have been what brought about the diverse animal kingdom you see today.

This could be because during an ice age convection in the ocean due to difference in temperatures stirred lots of minerals off the sea floor into the ocean, giving organisms that used them for energy to much, so they started storring it in 'hard parts' this was mainly phosphate and could have given creatures shells and eventually bones.

[Mercedes Benzene]

It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.

And how much honey is used to make one pint of mead?

[Jay-qu]

Ive eaten a fair amount of the stuff!

Ok,
I estimate that I have eaten around 15 jars of honey in my life, at around 250mL each 1Tablespoon ~ 15mL, thats 3000 bees that have lived and died to produce that honey for me

mmm I feel like honey now

[hallenrm]

If you could compare your genes with those of any other human being, you would find a similarity of 99.9% on the average. It is only the remaining 0.1% that is responsible for our individuality!!!

[Michaelangelica]

Twenty-two percent of Americans claim to be certain that Jesus will return to earth to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years.
Another twenty-two percent believe that he is likely to do so.

SAM HARRIS
Neuroscience Researcher; Author, The End of Faith
http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_7.html#margulis

[DFINITLYDISTRUBD]

Originally Posted by Mercedes Benzene
Fact: No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Does anyone know the science behind this?

It's rather simple really...the strain on you and the paper are too much (try folding a phone book in half thrice) each fold doubles the thickness of the folded paper and therefore also increases the amount of force needed for the next fold.

[Monomer]

A piece of paper has been folded in half twelve times:
Folding Paper in Half Twelve Times

But the paper had to be a specific length and width, and was actually so long, something like 4000 feet, that it was folded in a shopping mall.

[ingannilo]

Originally Posted by orbsycli

everytime John enters my apartment he clears his throat.

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